I cannot begin to describe death to you. Not because I don’t want to, it’s because there is nothing about death to describe, there is a darkness that surrounds it and something always shifts when we lose someone. We are …

The circumcision of men is not supposed to be discussed in public with children in the vicinity, but hey! How will y’all know if The Ameru doesn’t tell you? We mentioned in passing how the Merus learned about circumcision – …

International Women’s Day was on Thursday. We celebrated our mothers, sisters, daughters, girlfriends and women in general. I got curious. I wanted to know what was the place of the woman in Meru? What was the role of the woman? …

Last time, we spoke about Kithiri, which is one of the most feared oaths among the Meru community. Just like its name, it thirias (finishes) the entire lineage, over some time. Now, there is a worse oath – Kuringa …

I came across a comment in a group that has wonderful women from Meru asking for the best maternity hospitals in Meru and in my quest to find out more I requested the ladies in that group to share with …

You have heard of Mwonyo, right? It sounds like some very exotic name; well it is not Mwonyo is what fancy people call sparkling water and learned fellows refer to as carbonated water or alkaline water and drunk people …

Do you know the deliciously fermented porridge you drink in events? An event isn’t complete without “Ucuru bwa gukia”, we can all on that. Sometimes you cannot appreciate fermented porridge until you are old enough to listen to the …

When we talked about Marriage in Meru, we promised to cover divorce too. Because, sometimes, what starts has to end. By the way, divorce was very rare in traditional Meru. Actually, it was harder to divorce than to get married. …